Cross-pollutant trading

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-006980",
  "term": "Cross-pollutant trading",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Cross-Pollutant Trading",
  "definition": "Trading across two different pollutant parameters when equivalent mass loads of the different parameters can be calculated and the water quality effects of those equivalent mass loads are similar (e.g., meeting an effluent limitation for biochemical oxygen demand by purchasing credits generated for reduction of a phosphorus load).",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Water Quality Trading Toolkit for Permit Writers Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/cross-pollutant-trading/"
}